A STRANGE STORY.

Bruce Herald, Volume XII, Issue XII, 14 November 1879, Page 3

A STRANGE STORY.

W9 A very curious story is poing the round. Four yeara ago a tailor married the daughter of au artillery colonel, and lived happily with her for a twelvemonth, at the end of wbich period he went for a few days to Belgium on business. 0 j his return his wife was nowhere to be found ; but a month later the tailor and his friends recognised her (\s they imagined) in the corpse of a young woman who had been ' picked up at Auteail. Unable any longer to continue in Paris, the tailor went to New York, where, two years afterwards, he married again. In the month of January the new couple came to Paris, and rented an apartment in the Avenue Friedland. Recently, as the tailor was walking in the Champs Elysees, he saw a lady who looked marvellously like his first wife, driving in a handsome equipage, and, hiring a cab, he followed her to an hotel in the Avenue D'Oylau. There an explanation took place. It was indeed his first wife, who declared that she had been kidnapped and kept in ignoble seclusion for three months by a man whose name she had never been able to ascertain. When free, she had learned te her sorrow that her husband had gone to America, and not daring to return to her relatives, she had entered a dressmaker's establishment, and so on. luquines are now being set on foot in order to discover, if possible, who the kidnapper was.

the miner's right did not come from the bonajide miner. Mr Sheehan spoke in support of the reduction, and urged that an arrangement be made to enable them to receive the benefit of the reduction. Mr Beid supported the Bill. A division was called for, and resulted— Ayes, 29; noes, 23. The motion was carried. \ The Gold Duties Abolition Bill second reading was moved by Mr Seddon. He deprecated the interferences of County Councils, which bad striven hard to bias members against this BiU since it Was introduced. Mr Reeves said he would not oppose the second reading, but should at another stage ask the Government to abolish the duty altogether, instead of by 6d a year. % Mr Masters opposed the Bill, on the ground that the revenue was required locally. A division was taken on the second reading with the following result :— Ayes, 26 ; noes, 27. The House rose at 12.35.